Sold! (To the Lady in the Second Row)

She's an 8, She's a 9, She's a 10 I know... Name that singer! Geez, I remember seeing him in concert at the Pendleton Round Up when he was in his prime...

But this picture says it all... Kelan buys his first house, yay! It is sort of weird but by Diana's calculations we have not been in a house longer than 5 years so we aren't sure what that portends but as Ewan McGregor sings in Moulin Rouge, Come What May!

Offer made, offer accepted, it is now officially time to start FREAKING OUT! So really, what is there to freak out about. Well, let's just say I'm not the handiest guy around and as Diana likes to remind me I like to keep pretty busy so when the heck would I have time to help manage this project? Great question, and to this point we haven't disclosed the "project" that this house is, so, therefore, if you had that knowledge, you might start freaking out too...

Part of the reason this house felt so open was because it was missing things like, well, a kitchen, a few stairs, y'know, things that help make a room look more, er, roomy. Here, let me share a quick list of the "to-dos:"

1. Replace wood floors (augh, horrible guilt about tearing out the inlays but the re-finishing of quarter inch decking just wasn't going to cut it).


2. A kitchen (a place to cook, keep things cold, store cans of garbanzo beans, watch the boys eat breakfast in the morning, create culinary delights, etc.)


3. Stairs (have you ever walked up a flight of stairs where each stair was a different height?)


4. Carpet (don't panic, we aren't doing the entire house, just the upstairs to keep it cozy).


5. Paint (really? It has to be this difficult to choose a painter?)


6. Windows (probably in stages but ooh-la-la are there some lessons on how not to install a replacement window here)


7. Chicken Coop - whoops, that will be for a later date and only if the boys remember I promised them one (and a dog).

Oh look, I've put one of the boys to sleep. As you can tell, we are taking a lot of photos to document the changes, the situations we get ourselves into, etc. Next post will share our Flickr album which will be mostly pics of the before...